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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019-04-05 1352 email porter1 Minyard, Brian From:Paul Porter <Paul.Porter@arkansas.gov> Sent:Friday, April 05, 2019 1:52 PM To:Steve Harrelson (Steve@Harrelsonfirm.com) Cc:Minyard, Brian Subject:PU2909 Villa Marre National Register Nomination Attachments:PU2909 Villa Marre.nr.pdf; DSC_0039.JPG; DSC_0009.JPG Hi Steve, Thank you again for your hospitality this morning and for the tour of the house. What a terrific place to live! As promised, I attached a copy of the National Register Nomination for the house. It was listed in 1970, so the nomination is a bit thin on the description. I’ll check with our National Register program coordinator Ralph Wilcox, to see what other information he may have on the house in a red folder. I was thinking more about the water infiltration issue and the interior water damage in the house. I attached two of the photos I took for your reference about what I am going to describe next. One is looking out of the narrow hallway upstairs that goes to that back bedroom overlooking the kitchen roof. The rolled roofing looks like it was installed properly and goes part way up the wall to terminate under the flashing. What does look like a suspect point to me for water to get in is how the gutters are installed. The gutters are integrated into the top of the brick cornice. In the other photograph, the gutters are integrated into the wood cornice which projects out from the brick wall. You can see how the two different designs come together on the corner above the north side door going into the corridor between the kitchen and the study (smoking room?) in the second photograph. If there are breached seams in the bottoms of the gutters where the sections meet, that would account for the water damage that has gotten all the way in down to the basement through the brick wall. I’d be willing to bet money that is why you have water damage showing on the interior in various places. I would recommend that when Bray Sheet Metal comes to do the work that they will find breached seams in the bottoms of the gutters. Ask them if there is an additional water and ice shield that they can install under the integrated gutter trays to help prevent water from infiltrating the brick walls if the metal gutter seams give way in the future. Hopefully this would help minimize water running down the inside of the walls and migrating through to the interior surfaces. I sure hope Becky Witsell still has her notes and documentation of all the color work she did at Villa Marre. The stencils you have are wonderful and even though they weren’t stored very well, their existence is quite valuable for doing paint repairs. Thank you again very much for your time this morning and it was great to meet you and your mom in person. I’m looking forward to working with you on the repairs to the house! Cheers, Paul Paul Porter Technical Services Coordinator/Conservation Easement Coordinator Arkansas Historic Preservation Program a division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage 1100 North Street | Little Rock, AR 72201 office: 501.683.6672 fax: 501.324.9154 ArkansasPreservation.com Facebook | Twitter #AuthenticArkansas #ArkansasPreservation